An artistic travel in time, from the era of our canaanite ancestors, it is an effort to restitute who we are.
Patoo was born during the Lebanese civil war. After 3 years of studying Fine Arts, she finally found the three media in which she expresses herself: sculpture (clay, resin and metal), drawing and lamp design. Patoo’s mixed media art reflects the rapid and often negative movement towards consumerism and industry. For her, the divine nature in all of us is at stake.
After personal research in archaeology and history, she finds her inspiration in figurines from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. These sensual figures, which she designs and sculpts, contrast with the historical push towards property, war and profit.
Patoo is an artist working in the north-west section of the cultural space. Her work revolves around 3 mediums: sculpture (clay, resin and metal), ink drawing and lamp metal structures. It is a research about our forgotten Lebanese identity. An artistic travel in time, from the era of our canaanite ancestors, it is an effort to restitute who we are. Knowing the past is foreseeing what will happen because life is a cycle. The artist believes that Lebanon is a diverse microcosm, the navel of the world and a message of hope for the entire humanity.
As a woman artist, Patoo maintains a unifying gaze that rejects discordant differences. She seeks out the superwoman, finds certain similarities between the Neolithic mother goddess of fertility and the lady Ashtarut/Astarte, and then compares these pagan material relics with aspects of the living spirituality of the Virgin Mary/Maryam, revered by the major religions in Lebanon.
As an artist-citizen, she recreates the surreal aspect of modern Lebanon. The Canaanites were known for their art of communication (the alphabet, their long journeys). Today’s Lebanese are engaged in a communication revolution. Once depicted in bronze and gold, they are now depicted in resin holding a cell phone.
Some sculptures are glued together with bithume found on the beach of Beirut after an oil spill in the south in February 2021. We are all in a way sewn back together and recovering from a deep trauma.
“Hello waynak?” is an expression that characterize this trauma mentality. For Patoo, life is a cycle full of beginnings, a perpetual regeneration, a dream.
Video:
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Source:
https://www.agendaculturel.com/event/allo-waynak-patoo
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